TY - JOUR
T1 - “Why Don't You Speak (Up), Asian/Immigrant/Woman?” Rethinking Silence and Voice through Family Oral History
JF - Departures in Critical Qualitative Research
SP - 29
LP - 48
DO - 10.1525/dcqr.2018.7.2.29
VL - 7
IS - 2
AU - Chen, Yea-Wen
Y1 - 2018/06/01
UR - http://dcqr.ucpress.edu/content/7/2/29.abstract
N2 - This essay deploys a disruptive moment of giving up tenure to rethink silence and voice in the context of institutional whiteness from the standpoint of a racialized Asian/immigrant/woman faculty. I narrate moments during my first tenure-track years weathering the quiet and invisible storms of whiteness at a historically white institution in the Midwestern United States. In (re)writing my story, I (re)orient my identity as an immigrant Other in US academia, reclaiming my family's oral history to inform my ways of speaking in/with comforting silence. I conclude with a discussion of racialized acts of speaking (up) as an interactive rather than singular moment.
ER -